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Who?Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:23:54 +0000de-DEhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.17312957To brand or not to brand, that is the SharePoint Online Questionhttp://blog.marksimon.de/2015/02/12/to-brand-or-not-to-brand-that-is-the-sharepoint-online-question/
http://blog.marksimon.de/2015/02/12/to-brand-or-not-to-brand-that-is-the-sharepoint-online-question/#respondThu, 12 Feb 2015 14:11:54 +0000http://blog.marksimon.de/?p=2077To brand or not to brand, that is the SharePoint Online Question

Yes, you can use custom master pages with SharePoint Online. Yes, it will involve work. But there is no such thing as custom branding without work. The issue is lack of control, and that is a scary thing to face.

It would not occur to most power users that web parts can also be added to a Master page, and while this behavior is not available in the SharePoint UI, it can easily be accomplished using SharePoint Designer

How to add “Hidden” metadata to your page layouts so that they are only visible when editing the page, also provides the specific field names for the most common SharePoint 2010 base columns and web controls.

Publishing sites use master pages, page layouts, Web Parts, and cascading style sheets (.css files) to enable designers and developers to create branded websites with designs that can rival those of many current and popular websites today. This article focuses on the mechanics of properly planning and creating a design for an external, Internet-facing website with a publishing site.